telkom blocking me?

[beeti]

Hi all, I got capped about 2 days ago and have been browsing and downloading stuff through SA sites so that I still get resonable speeds. But now I cant get in to the South African website where I download from!!Is it possible for Telkom to block me from that site so I cant download anymore?
I was capped yesterday and the site loaded very fast all the time so I'm sure it isn't hosted internationally!

And now(5:25pm)all of a sudden when I go to the download site I am being redirrected to another site I have never seen in my life before!?

 

[kronoSX]

the hi ..jack

Your browser has been hijacked.Welcome to the world. Just use spybot and destroy.Mail me if you have problems ,I know how to solve most of them.Use cw shredder to

 

[ic]

Beeti, was this is Firefox v1.0.3?

What was the site you were redirected to?

Do you by any chance have the 2GB ISP account?

 

[guest2013-1]

Okay, ADSL cap 101 :

When you get capped, it does not nessacarily mean you get slower speeds immediately, this comes AFTER the mandatory 24 hour period disconnection/reconnection Telkom forces on you.

So even though you werent capped after you've reached your cap, now that you were disconnected/reconnected, it MAY be that that South African site you download from, is indeed international.

How about posting the link and let one of us tracert it for you... could be that the site is down or it's DNS could have been hacked to redirect to a different site, or the site decided to move.

 

[beeti]

yup it is on v1.0.3 but I just tried now and the webpage loaded like normal, strange seen as I havnt ran spybot or ad aware like dablakmark8 said I should do.any explanations for this?and the fact that it loaded perfectly proves that it definitely isn't international.

 

[ic]

Need more info to diagnose the problem...

yup it is on v1.0.3 but I just tried now and the webpage loaded like normal, strange seen as I havnt ran spybot or ad aware like dablakmark8 said I should do.any explanations for this?and the fact that it loaded perfectly proves that it definitely isn't international.

beeti, like Noone said, also how do you know the site is locally hosted?

 

[beeti]

coz i am definitely capped,no international sites are loading-always the 'operation timed out' message when i try open an international site.

 

[kronoSX]

Let me tell you im capped but my usage is 6gigs so far.cause i still can downloads huge files from saix and other za sites.There is somthing wrong there...a snake in your grass.By the way i never had a hijack since i used firefox.

 

[beeti]

well somethin is up and I just checked my usage monitor and it is well over my 6Gb cap limit.

 

[ic]

beeti, if you don't want to post the link, then you will have to go check for yourself if the site is locally hosted or not :

http://www.dnsreport.com/

 

[beeti]

Thanks for all the assistance everyone.Any other advice,pls let me know.I posted in the software section but still no reply but what security software is there that is very helpful with adsl security?I have peerguardian,zonealarm and ad-aware.
Thanks again

 

[killadoob]

u cant get hi jacked in firefox that i know of.

its like alot linux os's hardly any virus's

use mozilla firefox and thunderbird for email both awesome programs

 

[killadoob]

and u got skins for your firefox browser which are awesome

 

[beeti]

using firefox,much beta then explorer and the skins are cool too! sweet,thanks 4 the info!

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Well, how much have you d/l....some person I know d/l 36GB and then got cut-off....

 

[guest2013-1]

like i said, again... it could very well be that the site was down for maintanence. you have different factors when it comes to being online :

Your internet connection
The websites internet connection
The websites server
The website

And of course, the contention your ISP has.

So if either of those are down or slow, you will get a degraded performance (or none at all)

 

[beeti]

<dominic rooney> ive downloaded abt 14Gb over the 6Gb cap...

 

[davep001]

FireFox vs IE

Please explain (in detail) the diff between Firefox browser and the MS IE?
Im keen on downloading it before the months cap resets!! Damn Hellkom

 

[Saber]

Firefox rules!

Just got to Firefox's page: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html

Everythings there, including a link regarding differences and between Firefox and IE, and what every IE user needs to know about making the change.

Go for it!!

 

[Darke]

I use Firefox and Opera, depending on what I wish to do, Opera's cache system works a bit like a local image pack and it doesn't refresh the page on using the <back> button, it also makes less requests to the server making it faster in some operations, for example Online Browser based gaming. Differences for me between IE and Firefox, is security (lots of Browser Hijacks in IE) and Firefox being Open Source, not that much difference in speed between the two.